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David Koresh -- high school dropout, rock musician, polygamist preacher -- built his church on a simple message: "If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ." It was enough to draw more than a hundred people to join him at an armed fortress near Waco, Texas, to await the end of the world. The same message tempted Koresh to entertain a vision of martyrdom for himself. He would die in a battle against unbelievers, then be joined in heaven by the followers who chose to lay down their lives...
GLENN GOULD WAS A GLORIOUS ECCENtric: a concert dropout; a reclusive, self- promoting ascetic; a pianist of Horowitzian technique who, with curious exceptions like Bizet and Sibelius, usually shunned the Romantics. Sony Classical's magnificent GLENN GOULD EDITION, to be completed in 1994, presents Gould's entire recorded oeuvre (much of it previously unreleased). His Haydn is superb; his Mozart and Beethoven range from riveting to risible; his moderns dazzle. Above all, sensibility and omnipotent fingers made him a peerless contrapuntalist, who could with uncanny rhythmic acuity articulate multiple lines and transmute complex musical thought, especially Bach's, into pure...
...Today survey recently ranked Massachusetts 34th in national dropout rates with approximately 23 percent of students leaving high school before graduation. A 1989 study by the American Association of School Administrators defines an at risk student as one who is "one or more years behind their age group in the number of credits attained or basic skills levels...
...office at the [Cambridge] high school for students. We do drug, pregnancy, and dropout prevention," Badillo said...
Stephen Brion-Meisels, coordinator of Dropout Prevention for Cambridge, said the while city schools have become more racially balanced, issues of economic class stratification still exist...